That she would take over the role of Dolly Levi from Bette Midler (and her alternate, Donna Murphy) means she was interested in the challenge, not the provenance.
The Holocaust has been approached from so many angles of scholarly inquiry and at so many artistic levels — from Anne Frank to Primo Levi, from Claude Lanzmann to Steven Spielberg — that it is impossible to plead ignorance, except willfully.
Producers who had seen a 2012 engagement of "First Date" at the 5th Avenue Theater in Seattle, decided in February to open the show on Broadway in August, hiring as the leads Krysta Rodriguez, from "The Addams Family" and "Smash," and, in his Broadway debut, Zachary Levi, from television's "Chuck" and Disney's "Tangled".
Producers who had seen a 2012 engagement of "First Date" at A Contemporary Theater in Seattle, decided in February to open the show on Broadway in August, hiring as the leads Krysta Rodriguez, from "The Addams Family" and "Smash," and, in his Broadway debut, Zachary Levi, from television's "Chuck" and Disney's "Tangled".
(Rooney) 'First Date' (in previews; opens on Aug. 8) Zachary Levi, from the NBC spy comedy "Chuck," and Krysta Rodriguez, from "The Addams Family" onstage and "Smash" on television, are the potential soulmates thrown together in an eventful getting-to-know-you evening in this romantic musical that kicks off the new Broadway season.
(David Rooney) 'First Date' (in previews; opens on Aug. 8) Zachary Levi, from the NBC spy comedy "Chuck," and Krysta Rodriguez, from "The Addams Family" on Broadway and "Smash" on television, are the potential soul mates thrown together in an eventful getting-to-know-you evening in this romantic musical that kicks off the new Broadway season.
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He applied for the program after receiving encouragement from Levi and support from Assistant Dean Stella Boswell and Assistant Director and Senior Career Counselor Jennifer Caplan.
The works, which include three triptychs and a group that are six feet square, draw once again on his collagelike use of humble materials (antique linen and lace, cardboard, thread, buttons, netting, wood) and of typed or handwritten texts (entries from Virginia Woolf's diary, prose by Primo Levi, letters from soldiers at Gettysburg, documents like the Geneva Convention).
Mr. Levi retired from the university in 1984; his wife, Kate Sulzberger Hecht Levi, said he had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for the last six years.
Levi emerged from his pink tent with his pink ruck.
